Konami Reveals Billboard Chart-Topping Artists for Innovative Title Now Available for the iPhone and iPod Touch

Konami Digital Entertainment today announced the availability of Rhyme Player on the Apple App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch. Brought to you by the music genre leader, the new interactive title bridges lyrics and beats for music game aficionados, and provides gamers a new way to experience some of today’s most popular songs and artists including: “Just Dance” from Lady Gaga, “First Time” from Lifehouse, “ABC” from the Jackson 5, “Poison” from Bell Biv DeVoe and “Show me” from The Cover Girls.

In Rhyme Player, players must tap into their inner rhythm master and touch the song lyrics along with the beat. To test their rhythm, gamers can play through two levels, Easy and Normal. In the Easy levels, gamers will have to follow the lyrics as they flow from the bottom of the screen and tap the line in the upper part of their screen along with the beat. In the Normal levels, gamers must tap the lyrics according to the beat of the song. The game additionally offers different gameplay modes, Shuffle and Ensemble, that challenge players with different lyric flow patterns.

There's only 5 songs, and they're all listed in the press release. They're all the original masters, and they're uncut.

Easy mode is one button DDR, lyrics scroll up to a line, tap the button when the lyrics are over the line. Normal mode has the lyric already on the line, bunched together with the rest of the lyrics, and you have to hit the button while that lyric is being sung. It's hard to explain. Shuffle is just like Easy, but with two buttons. Ensemble is also two buttons, but it makes one side Easy and the other side Normal. One timing window, no keysounds, no failing.

The game gives you the choice to have an image of the artist in the background or a visualizer. The credits list 6 people. Tahei Katagai did the "Game", Takamitsu Kinjo did the "Art", Michael Rajna & Yutaka Takeda did the "License", Katsuyoshi Tanabe did "Produce", and Shigeru Fukutake did "Executive Produce".

From looking at the screenshots, it has a DJ MAX Technika feel to it. Looks like you tap the music note or lyrics when the circle closes on it.

Edit:
Bought this game today for $1.99. I think it should have been $.99. It feels like this game was barely worked on. The lyrics for Just Dance were wrong. Truth is suppose to be TRIP!, and the part after that should be OH!! REDONE. The game seems to only have 5 songs, which sucks, no unlocks. Game Levels are EASY, NORMAL, SHUFFLE, ENSEMBLE. Easy was really easy for someone who has rhythm. But all the other levels are a bit challenging for me since its song lyrics, i don't know any of these songs except Just Dance. There isn't even a tutorial just indicators saying "Watch". It's not worth really buying unless they come up with an update that makes this game 5x better. Oh and if anyone wants screenshots, i can get em. Also no score screen.